Oh my gosh you guys, two words – mung beans – where have they been all my life?
They are delicious! I could not believe the amazing salad that was created yesterday, I need to use that emoticon with the two hearts as eyes because that was exactly how I felt when looking at it…..
I totes love this emoticon.
Anyways, this salad. It is so easy to make all you need is:
Ingredients
Cooked mung beans (soak about 1 cup mung beans overnight or for at least 6-8 hours, and then boil them before using).
**Please be sure to rinse the mung beans well to remove impurities**
Beetroot
Avocado
Chopped onion
Olives
Tomatoe
Smoked salmon (optional)
Salt and pepper to flavour
Dressing
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 minced clove garlic
1 tbsp lemon juice
No measurements have been given because it really varies with whatever you would prefer to add more/less of!
Mix together all the ingredients in the salad and the dressing – and dig in!
Happy facts about mung beans:
* They are a great source of protein with approximately 3.16g of protein per cup.
* They are also a good source of vitamin C, folic acid and folate.
* Additionally, 1 cup of mung beans gives you about 5% of your recommended daily iron intake.
Hope you get the same heart eyes when you try this! ;)
Saaaa-weet…I have all the ingredients (except smoked salmon) at home…I think that’s tomorrow lunch decided! Thank goodness mung beans are freely available in Mumbai :)
Haha definitely! Did you enjoy the salad?! It is a very easy packable lunch to make the morning before work :) Just don’t forget to keep them to soak the night before!
mung beans are my absolutely fav!
Aren’t they amaze? I don’t know why it has taken me so long to hop onto the mung bean boat! Apart from the prep time they are so easy to add onto anything!
Looks really tasty…I’ve never cooked with mung beans before!
They really give such an earthy texture and you feel healthy just looking at them in your plate ! ;)
We eat mung bean salads all the time! It’s so easy, crunch and nutritious :)
It really is, I don’t know why it took me so long to discover this! :)